Monday, December 14, 2015

News You May Have Missed

• Turkey withdrew some of its troops deployed to a training camp near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

• Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Ankara and Moscow should continue to develop strategic ties and that the "mistake of a pilot" should not hurt bilateral relations.

• A Russian warship fired warning shots at a Turkish fishing vessel in the Aegean Sea to avoid a collision.

• An international conference in Rome aimed at ending the conflict in Libya has called on all rival factions to accept an immediate comprehensive cease-fire, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said.

• Islamic State forces are spreading from the group's stronghold on the Libyan coast to the interior of the country with the aim of seizing oil wells, French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said.

• A teacher in a Paris suburb was attacked by an Islamic State supporter wielding a box cutter and scissors. 

• The far-right National Front failed to win a majority in any of France's 13 regions during the second round of regional elections.

• The European Union remains on course to extend sanctions against Russia, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said.

• Kazakhstan's currency, the tenge, plummeted 5 percent to a historic low of 322.47 to the U.S. dollar.

• India agreed to buy a high-speed bullet train from Japan.

• Thousands of Brazilians took to the streets to demand President Dilma Rousseff's ouster.